Coffee Lake Pictures
This is how the Coffee Lake NUCs will look like. No big surprises there.
The NUC8i3BEH, NUC8i5BEH and NUC8i7BEH will look have a slot for 2.5″ drive and a slightly higher case. There’s a larger grill on the left side surrounding the SD card reader. This is likely due to the fact that the 28 W TDP CPUs require better cooling than the 15 W CPUs used previously.
The more compact NUC8i3BEK and NUC8i5BEK will only have an M.2 slot for storage and a more compact case.
The availability of these NUCs seems to get pushed back week by week. Now the dealers are saying beginning of August…
The orange USB Port looks so ugly… Any picture from the back side? Hope to buy one soon!
The orange is used to differentiate the ports always on device charging feature. You want backside pictures of Olli or the NUC?
The NUC, off course!
well next time be more specific
Seeing the images seems the new NUCs have lost the “ring” and now there is a simpe LED indicator next to the storage icon to the left of front USBs.
The ring was gone from Gemini Lake NUC already, so I was kind of expecting it to disappear from Coffee Lake as well.
It was pretty pointless anyway :)
Is the M.2 slot missing from the higher cases or is the 2.5″ port added to the set up
No it’s not. Both the higher and the compact models share the same mainboard. So the compact cases also have connectors for 2.5″ SATA drives, but there’s no space inside the chassis for one.
Will it be possibe to power them via USB C ?
It needs a 90 W power supply at 12-19 V DC. So no, the USB spec isn’t there yet for them to include that feature.
How did you come with 90W? These must be no more than 65W. Are there some specs? TDP of the CPU (SoC) is 28W, you have 4 USB 3.0 ports -5W each and 2 SSD -6W each and -5W for the RAM.
Specs are here: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/mini-pcs/NUC8i3BE_NUC8i5BE_NUC8i7BE_TechProdSpec.pdf
After reading about USB 3.1 it looks like the spec covers up to 100 W so yeah Intel could have done it but chose not to.
Thanks for the link. From the specs it says there is power sensing which restricts power consumpion of the board to 90W and you can switch it off in the BIOS. But the good think is that the termal solution looks bigger (fan heatsink) so may be better. Still no rear audio out.
The power supply for these new NUCs is 65 W.
The engineering sample for the i7 came with a 90W adapter ([email protected]): https://youtu.be/MMuJlVW7mQE?t=568
The grate on the side gives them a more industrial feel. I agree about the led ring. Once the wow factor wore off,it pretty much just stayed the same color on mine.
Can’t wait to upgrade my old NUC5i7RYH , i think i am going to take the i5 as it is not that different than i7 both 4 cores 8 threads to keep away from over heat
I also worry about heat from the power increase from previous models. I hope the increased height is due to additional heatsinks or a larger fan.
Was hoping for an rgb ring :-(
I for one am waiting on the NUC7 to go on fire sale when the NUC8 hit the shelves.
Get the NUC7i5 as the real world difference in speed between it and the i7 is minimal. If you do light gaming with the NUC, the gaming difference is practically undetectable. I have both, the 7i5 is a much better deal at roughly $80-100 less.
And I heartily second the comment that the extra height had better be 100% due to an upgraded cooling system. Both the 7i5 and 7i7 tax the cooling system to its limits when gaming and that’s only with 2 cores + iGPU.
I don’t think there is an increase in height compared to NUC 7. I think what is said is that BEH models are higher than BEK models. But from the specs documentation linked above in the comments it looks like the fan has wider diameter and the heatsink is wider but not taller.
Are we certain that this wouldn’t support x3 3840×2160 @60Hz monitors?
I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to run 2 full 60Hz monitors off of the 40Gbps Thunderbolt port alone with the HDMI 2.0a port handling it’s own 4k@60Hz monitor.
I guess you would have to account for utilizing a TB-x2 HDMI 2.0a adapter, which exist and are readily available, but from a bandwidth perspective, you shouldn’t have a problem.
The closest it can get is 1x 4k@60 + 2x 4K@30, see section 1.5.1.5 Multiple DisplayPort and HDMI Configurations here: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/mini-pcs/NUC8i3BE_NUC8i5BE_NUC8i7BE_TechProdSpec.pdf
Yes, as stated, I’m well aware of the DP 1.2 17.28 Gbit/s bandwidth limitation that would only allow for 1 4k@60Hz stream. I’m talking about using the TB3 40Gbit/s protocol that has more than enough bandwidth, and plenty of readily available adapters (see below) to provide dual DP or HDMI 4k@60Hz connections. Same port, different protocols with vastly different bandwidth caps.
Startech:
https://www.startech.com/AV/thunderbolt-3-video-adapters/
SIIG:
http://www.siig.com/it-products/usb/display-adapters.html?thunderbolt=638
Plugable:
https://plugable.com/products/tbt3-hdmi2x-83/
https://plugable.com/products/tbt3-dp2x
Sonnet:
TB3-DHDMI
TB3-DDP4K
That’s for using the Type C port’s DisplayPort Alt Mode. If you used a full Thunderbolt adapter, you have more bandwidth available and should be able to theoretically pull it off.
I would like to buy NUC8i7BEH model but I need 2nd NIC port: do you think will be possible to add a ethernet 1Gbps port with some add-on?
http://www.gorite.com/intel-nuc-dawson-canyon-usb-3-0-female-and-gigabit-ethernet-rj45-lid
You’ll have to wait and see if they make a bean canyon version.
Thanks, I just asked them.
But a Thunderbolt-Ethernet adapter it might work? (for example from Apple)
Yes, either a Thunderbolt 3 or USB (either Type C or Type A) GbE adapter would work.
Thanks: my only concern is about Linux drivers about this adapter.
Any experience (also for other NUCs)?
Looking into another NUC build soon. Have my eyes on NUC8i5BEK using a still new in the box Samsung XP 941 128GB M2.
Will this still work/fit?
Thanks!
“The availability of these NUCs seems to get pushed back week by week. Now the dealers are saying beginning of August…”
SimplyNUC:
NUC8i3BEH – This product is expected to ship by Mid October.
NUC8i5BEH – This product is expected to ship by Mid October
NUC8i7BEH – This product is expected to ship by Mid to Late September